General Store Arts

Thursday, September 6, 2012

At short notice, I prepared a small exhibition of visual poetry at the General Store, mainly to celebrate the forthcoming publication of The Last Vispo anthology (later this year, from Fantagraphics). The exhibition lasted for the month of July.

Monday, October 3, 2011

taking it in turn sampling bits of Arthur Koestler's The Roots of Coincidence:

Mental influence on random eventsare manifestations of a universal principlewhat causality is up to, we think we knowyet the theory of an ocean of particlesthrough which the basic polarity manifeststhe mystical concept of One-nesseven when very large numbers are involvedare, of course, manifested in different wayson the shadow desk in front of methe Lamarckian view is philosophically more attractivein which dogs and cats seem to be awareneo Darwinian déjà vu, almost inviolablevisual or auditory hallucinationsthe theory of an ocean of particles of negative massserving as a subterranean pool which individual minds can tapbefore he has actually moved his fingera casual phenomenon

some prefixes to try out on the list of words below:pro-anti-pre-post-sub-super-

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Setting the scene: Poetry Forum gathering, members chatting, writing, sharing, collaborating...I decide to listen and record whatever snippets catch my attention....words, phrases, exclamations, ruminations....one hour and 4 pages later I have my raw data, my Found Words to shape, collate, mould and create, literally from out of thin air! From breath to speech to page to poetry....Found! Here are some of the resulting poems: